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Essays to my daughter on our relationship with the natural world /

"What do fishing with an otter, sitting atop a mountain at dawn with eighty Taiwanese backpackers, and driving home from Aldo Leopold's Shack have to say about the evolution of a personal environmental philosophy? Essays to My Daughter on Our Relationship With the Natural World provides a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Simpson, Steven, 1954- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2022]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • ESSAYS TO MY DAUGHTER
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Personal Philosophy and Individual Experiences
  • Part I: The Pond and the Shack
  • 1 The Good Oak Redux
  • 2 Drowning Out All Our Muskrats
  • 3 Wild Apples
  • 4 Still Fishing
  • 5 A Person's Leisure Time
  • 6 Book Purge
  • Part II: Sketches Here and There
  • 7 Wisconsin East: A Small Square of Red
  • 8 California With a Touch of Maine: Tide Pools East and West
  • 9 Minnesota: Night of the Quintze
  • 10 Iowa: The Birds of Iowa
  • 11 Taiwan: Ascent of Jade Mountain
  • 12 A Return to Taiwan: Old and American
  • 13 Ontario: Goodbye, Deadbroke Island
  • 14 Wisconsin West: Mark Twain on the Mekong
  • 15 Wisconsin West: What About the Other Kids?
  • 16 Three Outsdoorsmen and a Philosopher
  • Part III: Continuums
  • 17 The Preservationist and the Conservationist
  • 18 The Wanderer and the Adventurer
  • 19 The Homecomer and the Sojourner
  • 20 The Romantic and the Scientist
  • 21 The Restorer
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • About the Author.